Cannabis is light in our world of darkness,” explains Juan Matthew De La Tour, who suffers from Autistic Spectrum Disorder and gets overwhelmed and overstimulated by unnatural light. “I think about a million things at once so it helps me …
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What can twitter reveal about people with ADHD?
In a Twitter-based study, Penn researchers found that people with ADHD tended to post messages related to lack of focus, self-regulation, intention and failure, as well as expressions of mental, physical and emotional exhaustion. They often used words like those in …
Read More »Two-Thirds of CBD Extracts Are Inaccurately Labeled, Reports New Study – News
Lead image via Flickr The number of CBD extracts coming to market in canna-legal states is growing exponentially, but a new research study has found that the majority of these products are inaccurately labeled. Adjunct assistant professor of psychology Marcel …
Read More »With online medical marijuana, it’s buyer beware
(Reuters Health) – People who buy medical marijuana online may not necessarily get exactly what they expect when their package arrives in the mail, new research suggests. Online, almost 70 percent of products made from cannabidiol – a marijuana plant …
Read More »More Than 100 Pennsylvania Doctors are Now Approved to Certify Medical Cannabis Patients – News
Lead photo via Pennsylvania Department of Health It’s been more than a year and a half since Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf signed a bill to legalize medical marijuana in the Keystone State, and there’s finally a light at the end …
Read More »Pennsylvania: Medical Marijuana Registration Open for Patients and Caregivers
On Wednesday, the Pennsylvania Department of Health released an informative video providing useful tips for those looking to apply to the state’s medical marijuana program. Two years after Gov. Tom Wolf decided to continue perusing former Gov. Tom Corbett’s pilot …
Read More »Pennsylvania: Erie City Council Considers Citations for Weed
Erie City Councilman Bob Mersky is pushing his fellow council members to embrace the wisdom of decriminalizing marijuana. Did you know that 80% of marijuana arrests in PA are for simple possession, wasting taxpayer dollars and police… https://t.co/oyptsCddyI — Robert …
Read More »ACLU Report: Black Pennsylvanians Are 8 Times as Likely to Be Arrested for Weed Than White People – News
Lead photo via Flickr user Chris As legal weed spreads across the country like, well, a weed, it can sometimes feel like America’s war on drugs is fading. With pot shops across California, Colorado, Massachusetts, and more, it would seem like cops …
Read More »Pennsylvania Canna-Business Selling Medical Marijuana License for $20 Million – News
This June, the Pennsylvania Department of Health awarded twelve licenses allowing businesses to grow cannabis for medical use. But shortly after the announcement came rumors that some of these businesses were trying to flip these licenses for a profit. Health …
Read More »Maryland Still Struggling to Find Footing in Medical Marijuana Landscape
Though Maryland legalized medical marijuana in 2014, diversity concerns in the licensing process have drastically slowed the implementation of dispensaries throughout the state. Maryland has enjoyed a long relationship with cannabis — one of the oldest in American history, in …
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